Mind Games: Emotionally Manipulative Tactics Partners Use to Control Relationships and Force the Upper Hand

Do you feel like you have to walk on eggshells around your partner? Are you unhappy in your relationship, but can't bear to pull yourself away from it? Do you feel inadequate and sometimes deserving of the treatment you get? Recognize that your partner is your manipulator and abuser - don't allow them to force the upper hand. Mind Games uncovers a host of underhanded, sneaky, and malicious emotional manipulation tactics that manipulators and abusers use to beat you down and control you.

Defeat Manipulation 101: The Secret Handbook to Defend Yourself Against Those Who Attempt to Manipulate You

Manipulative people can lower your quality of life, hurt you deeply, and damage your mental health. Manipulators will suck all of your energy as they use you for all that you got. They will guilt you, they will make you ashamed to be yourself, and they will make you doubt your own sanity. Starting today, you can begin to take action and defeat the manipulation in your life. This book is your secret guide to defeating even the worst manipulators in your life.

When Love Is a Lie: Narcissistic Partners & the Pathological Relationship Agenda

When our partner is a narcissist, only those who've actually experienced the madness will ever understand what we're going through. When Love Is a Lie is a straight-up, tell-all book about narcissism in relationships that skips the clinical bullshit to focus solely on the personal experience. A narrative that holds nothing back, Zari Ballard's story will educate, enlighten, and empower you to evaluate (and fully understand) the mind-boggling dysfunction in your own relationship.

Who's Pulling Your Strings?: How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life

Millions of people, both men and women, can become involved in relationships with manipulators, people who control through emotional manipulation, insults, and mind games. These "toxic" relationships erode self-esteem and make life miserable for the victim.

Almost every person will suffer some form of manipulative behavior at some stage in their life, it's unavoidable. Whether it's an overt form of intimidation and bullying in the workplace or more subtle covert manipulation within a relationship. It's much more prevalent than you think. But most people aren't equipped with the right observation strategies to pick-up on it, or the right mental make-up to deal with it....

Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse

Within every community, toxic people can be found hiding in families, couples, companies, and places of worship. The cryptic nature of psychological abuse involves repetitious mind games played by one individual or a group of people. Psychological abuse leaves no bruises. There are no broken bones. There are no holes in the walls. The bruises, brokenness, and holes are held tightly within the target of the abuse.

Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself

Although clinical research has been conducted on narcissism as a disorder, less is known about its effects on victims who are in toxic relationships with partners with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Individuals with this disorder engage in chronic devaluation and manipulation of their partners, a psychological and emotional phenomenon known as "narcissistic abuse". Unfortunately, the full extent of what narcissistic abuse entails is not taught in any psychology class or diagnostic manual.

In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People

Dr. George K. Simon knows how people push your buttons: your children---especially teens---are experts at it, as is your mate. A coworker may quietly undermine your efforts while professing to be helpful, or your boss may prey on your weaknesses. Manipulative people have two goals: to win and to look good doing it.

Covert Emotional Manipulation Exposed!: The Underhanded Mind Control Tactics That All Manipulators Use to Take Control in Personal Relationships

Emotional manipulation is a powerful and potentially deadly fact of life. Some people are highly skilled at manipulating the emotions of other people in order to serve their own needs and desires. When this manipulation is carried out in a secretive and subtle way it can be referred to as "covert". In his book entitled Covert Emotional Manipulation Exposed! author John Mentory shows you everything you need to know to recognize, neutralize, and fight back against covert emotional manipulation.

The Narc Decoder: Understanding the Language of the Narcissist

Divorcing a narcissist? You are probably left feeling baffled and shaken by the communication that you receive from the narcissist. In my mid-20s, I contemplated learning multiple foreign languages. I envisioned dabbling in French to successfully make my way around Paris or Irish Gaelic to explore the rich history of Ireland along with my deep ancestral roots in that country. My day dreams about learning new languages always went hand in hand with the imagery of world travel.

Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You

In Controlling People, best-selling author Patricia Evans tackles the "controlling personality" and reveals how and why these people try to run other people's lives. She also explains the compulsion that makes them continue this behavior - even as they alienate others and often lose those they love. Should you ever find yourself in the thrall of someone close to you, Controlling People is here to give you the wisdom, power, and comfort you need to be a stronger, happier, and more independent person.

Forbidden Psychology 101: The Cool Stuff They Didn't Teach You About In School

There is a dark side to psychology. A side that people do not speak about in polite society. A side that is explicitly forbidden by ethical committees and such supervising agencies as the UN and the Geneva Convention. This is forbidden psychology. Forbidden psychology is not always nice. But life is not always nice, either. An understanding of forbidden psychology enables you to take control of your life by controlling others who stand in your way.

Publisher's Summary

Do you find yourself helping others even when you don't want to? Are you always feeling guilty when you tell others no? Do your friends tend to guilt trip you into doing things for them? Are you tired of feeling like you have no control over your life? Are you tired of being victimized? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then Manipulation is the perfect book for you. Inside this book by Sarah Nielsen, you are going to learn everything you need to know about manipulation, including why people do it and how you can learn to deal with it.

Some of the first things you will learn about when listening to Manipulation are the warnings sign of an emotional manipulator. These warning signs will give you ideas of what to look for when trying to determine if a person is manipulating you. Some of the most basic signs include negative reinforcement as well as punishing you in some form for not doing what they want.

While it is important to learn the warning signs of emotional manipulators, knowing the types of manipulators out there can help narrow things down even more. Manipulation covers both topics in detail, allowing you to gain a very thorough understanding of what you need to look out for.

Knowing about manipulators can help you, but once you are a target you are always going to be a target unless you make some life-altering changes. The author of Manipulation will explain what makes you a target for manipulation. They will also take you through what you need to do to make yourself a harder target, to hopefully break the vicious cycle of manipulation.

I'm not a very good manipulator. And I used to be easily manipulated. But thanks to this great book, not only am I more prepared to stop people from taking advantage of me, but I am now able to better take advantage of other people.

What would have made Manipulation: How to Recognize and Outwit Emotional Manipulation and Mind Control in Your Relationships better?

Bought this book to learn about manipulation and how to use it in a positive manner. This explained what manipulation was but wasn't what I was looking for. It focuses on how to recognize manipulators rather than the actions to fight back or use manipulation to your advantage (again in a positive manner). Could be a good book for people who struggle.